Elegy for my father’s father James K. Baxter Basic – First Impressions: * Different kind of title – very direct * Written in past tense – reflection * Written is second person – author describing the death of someone else * Idea of ‘Death’ – universal idea * Poem is one stanza long (written on two pages but actually one stanza) * Tone is dull and slow * References to nature and water * Free Verse * Ideas of poem (general): * Death – natural process
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Yennadim Medina The Wanderer and The Wife’s Lament: Nostalgia in Anglo-Saxon Elegies. Whenever we read an Anglo-Saxon elegy‚ we may notice a feeling of sentimental longing for a better past‚ which is portrayed by the poet. This feeling is called nostalgia‚ and it is present in many –if not all- early English poems‚ specially in Anglo-Saxon elegy‚ and it is often used in order to convey the ideas of belong to nowhere and having nobody to rely on are worse than death itself. This belonging
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Kandis Sutton Period 7 10/23/12 PART I – Summary of Short Story "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez opens with a group of children playing on the beach of a small fishing village. In the waves‚ a shadowy‚ mysterious bulge approaches on the shore. It turns out to be a drowned man‚ covered in seaweed‚ stones‚ and dead Sea creatures. The men head to neighboring villages to see if the dead man belongs to one of them. Then‚ the women clean off the body and prepare him
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The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World By Gabriel García Márquez Gregory Rabassa‚ Translator THE FIRST CHILDREN who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags or masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man. They had been playing
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The Transformation of a Fishing Village A drowned man is anything but handsome. In the film “Castaway” made in the year 2000‚ the main character played by Tom Hanks pulls a drowned man who was his pilot from the sea. He is bloated and his skin is green. He is definitely not a handsome man. Why then would Gabriel Garcia Marquez write a story about a handsome drowned man? Marquez writes a magical story of a man from a faraway land washing up on the shore of a remote village. Though he is dead‚ the
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rhyme scheme for end line rhyme always a good place to start. there is not always end line punctuation giving it a conversational tone and seemingly being spoken to the reader. the title hints at the mournful tone baxter embodies being called elegy its about his grandfather if you didnt pick that up either.. he lived 80 years and never spoke his true feelings. gives the image that he is silent and strong and perhaps never found true love. unchanging cairn - remembered after death
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Sea Imagery "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World" is full of sea imagery‚ from the title on forward. When the dead body first approaches the shore‚ the kids playing think he is a whale; then‚ a ship. He even looks like some sort of funky sea monster: "when [his body] washed up on the beach‚ they removed the clumps of seaweed‚ the jellyfish tentacles‚ and the remains of fish and flotsam‚ and only then did they see that it was a drowned man" (1). And shortly after‚ we’re told that "he had the
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The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World can be analysed as a parable for humankind’s need for meaning and the ability of ideas to transform the world. Written in 1968 by Gabriel Garcia Marquez‚ the short story follows a small village’s reaction as a drowned man washed up on their shore‚ where they proceed to create meaning within the man‚ effectively also evoking meaning within themselves. The readers are immersed by vivid imagery which‚ through magical realism‚ describes the absurd through a matter-of-fact
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isn’t easy at all on the other hand it‚ so hard that many people ignore it until they become very ill. Death can give people the feeling of being not in control of their own life‚ so they give up since they can’t control death. In the beginning of Dawes poem‚ he gives up on death because of his death of his dog. He explains there is no point of praying because death always wins and that’s when faith dies. As for Dickson poem‚ the metaphor of the Funeral gives the speaker an assumption of depression
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